German Chancellor Angela Merkel will inaugurate a memorial to murdered Roma and Sinti victims of the Nazis on Wednesday, as Europe's largest minority grapples with ongoing discrimination.
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy called on Bosnia and Herzegovina to “strive for progress” in its efforts to achieve EU integration, on meeting with President Bakir Izetbegovic in Sarajevo on Sunday.
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem, and the Netherlands sign on Monday an agreement whereby the Dutch government will support the digitization of the files concerning the Dutch Righteous Among the Nations.
German officials have opened an investigation into an 87 year-old suspected WWII Nazi concentration camp guard. According to German weekly Der Spiegel, the unnamed presumed Nazi worked at the death camp in 1944, during which period 344,000 people were sent to their deaths.
A 90-year-old man accused of being a Nazi war criminal won his fight Wednesday to stay in Australia, ending a legal battle to extradite him to Hungary over the 1944 murder of a Jewish teenager.
Romanian Jews reacted with outrage Tuesday to news of the appointment of a controversial left-wing legislator who has previously been accused of Holocaust denial to a ministerial position.
Hungary paid tribute Friday to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews during World War II, in a modest ceremony in Budapest's Holocaust museum marking 100 years since his birth.
Slovak justice authorities said Thursday more charges have been filed against the alleged Nazi-era war criminal Laszlo Csatary, detained in neighbouring Hungary.